What I am thinking of, and what Pitt was thinking of, is, on the contrary, one of those unique exotic lilies, which are as much wonders of colour as marvels of grace; apart, reserved, pure, also lofty, and delicate to the last degree; Queening it over all the rest of the flowers around, not so much by official pre-eminence of beauty as by the superiority of the spiritual nature.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner
He might have saved himself the trouble, for they hadn't been gone ten minutes before she came off herself, Queening it in the stern of the king's great alia, seventy feet long, with Tweedie and Maunga, and the princes, and eighty men chorusing to the paddles, with drums aft, and a young boy dancing in the bow and keeping time with a rifle.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
If it had been John Barrett's daughter she would have been Queening it in those camps when I got there.
"King Spruce, A Novel"
Holman Day